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Elder Scrolls: Legends May Not Release on PS4 Due to Cross Play Blocking

Elder Scrolls: Legends May Not Release on PS4 Due to Cross-Play Blocking 526n34

By Akhil Arora | Updated: 14 August 2018 11:03 IST

Highlights

Cross-play availability, progress essential for Legends
Everyone allows it across all platforms, except Sony
Sony able to do so owing to large player base of PS4

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Nintendo Switch – later this year. (The Elder Scrolls: Legends is already available on Windows and macOS PCs, and Android and iOS devices.) 6q4241

Speaking with monthly video game magazine Game Informer at QuakeCon 2018 in Texas, Bethesda senior VP global marketing and communications Pete Hines said:

"It is our intention in order for the game to come out, it has to be [cross-play and save progress] on any system. We cannot have a game that works one way across everywhere else except for on this one thing. The way the game works right now on Bethesda.net, it doesn't matter where you buy your stuff, if you play it on another platform that stuff is there. It doesn't matter what platform you play on, you play against everyone else who is playing at that moment. There's no 'Oh, it's easier to control, or it has a better framerate on this system.' It's a strategy card game. It doesn't matter."

This presents an interesting problem given Nintendo, on the other hand, allow cross-platform play with all systems.

While developers, including Bethesda with Fallout 76, have previously given into Sony’s demands owing to the large base of s it brings – over 80 million monthly active s as of May – the publisher seems to be singing a different tune with The Elder Scrolls: Legends. Hines said cross-play availability is “essentially non-negotiable", which means the game might not make it to PS4.

“We can't be talking about one version of Legends, where you take your progress with you, and another version where you stay within that ecosystem or it’s walled off from everything else,” he added. “That is counter to what the game has been about."

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